Human development and environment link – UGC NET Question

Human development is about enlarging people’s freedoms and capabilities in areas such as health, education and participation. Environmental sustainability reminds us that these gains depend on healthy ecosystems and finite resources. A sound development strategy therefore links the two by improving human well-being while respecting ecological limits, so that present and future generations can flourish.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because assuming technology will always fix environmental problems encourages ignoring biophysical limits and risks irreversible damage.

Option B:
Option B is correct since it recognises that advances in human capabilities must be achieved in ways that conserve ecosystems and stay within environmental limits.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect as sustainability does not demand that development stop; rather, it calls for development to proceed in environmentally responsible and socially just ways.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because human development explicitly goes beyond income to include health, education, freedoms and, increasingly, environmental conditions that underpin these.